Catching up on coverage.

In contrast this from @seaningle on ‘a monumental shift’ - is thorough on detail background.

‘Notably, one thing stood out most of all in an IOC survey of 1,100 athletes, many of them female Olympians or former Olympians: the majority of the women were in favour of change’

Ps Don’t blame individual correspondents for any outlet’s overweening editorial position.
theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar… Poor to very poor from @SkyNews

The number of times men are described as women is self destructive - do they not want readers and viewers to understand the story?

Rob Harris, sorry to say, seems caught up in TQ+ talking points

skysports.com/olympics/news/…

If a medic who understands that sex is real, and impossible to change, has been removed from the MHRA’s oversight of this trial, that is a bigger scandal by far.

https://twitter.com/cathynewman/status/2027425770931372356

Side note: Channel 4 News, where Newman presents, showed zero interest in a specialist briefing at the House of Lords on the Pathways research. They neither responded nor attended.

The editor of Channel 4 News, Louisa Compton, was not always this uninterested. From 2015 on onwards she commissioned and edited Victoria Derbyshire’s ‘Transgender Children’ films and content, which were followed by leaps in referrals to gender identity clinics.

Exclusive from @guardian

‘Stephenson is viewed as more open to listening than her predecessor Kishwer Falkner…who oversaw interim advice from the EHRC which prompted alarm that it could effectively exclude trans people from the public realm’

The drama. What nonsense.
/ theguardian.com/society/2026/j…

‘As soon as we were out of surgery..I couldn’t urinate, I need a catheter..I found extra drainage holes opening up and couldn’t walk for more than half an hour’

The ⁦@Independent⁩ turns the horror of ‘gender surgery’ into a waiting list story
/ independent.co.uk/news/health/tr… Sex-based campaigners have tried for years to get the facts about ‘gender surgery’ in legacy media, with fact checks and personal experiences

Now identity activists are trying to get ahead of the game by publishing them - but blaming those who’ve been trying to raise the alarm
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Finally the BBC covers this, but with an example of total capture

One of the worst ever pieces of coverage out of the Washington bureau, and that includes its ludicrous outrage over Zooey Zephyr.

It’s a disgrace and hopefully will have to be a turning point.
/ It can’t bring itself to say male at all, not one time. It describes boys as female, and we’re never told this is about girls sharing a sports field and locker room with boys. The key question about the definition of sex is deliberately omitted.
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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

In the 36 hours after Max’s post and the @guardian report he highlighted, we’ve seen so much more non-UK conversation about how bias is embedded in language.

Max is on record on how ‘uncomfortable’ he is with ‘gender critical’ conversation, but naming Jan Crawford has had a
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https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/2008275542315843790

/positive effect. Affirmation is so profoundly embedded in global style guides that even starting the conversation is an achievement.

Thanks and well done also to @jeremymbarr for finding out about this little exchange.

We want news outlets to be in a position where instead
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On the US equivalent of the Cass Review - published last month - which UK legacy broadcasters here haven’t yet looked at.

Useful (and unusually self-aware) analysis in @Newsweek, by a US bioethicist and philosopher, and a US psychiatrist and associate professor.
/ Both were contributors to the US review, and both understand how the politicisation of ‘gender’ protocols means that actual children’s health can come second to a politically tribal approach.

Basically, they want you to read it despite its origin.
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newsweek.com/liberals-shoul…

There are lots of things wrong with this. It’s the correspondent hit on Woman’s Hour on Sandie Peggie.

It treats the Tribunal judgment in Sandie Peggie as if it were equal to or even superior to the Supreme Court judgment, and as if it had bearing on what other employers do.
/ It’s not an ‘overlap’ - the judgment ignores the SC on what makes a women’s space, a women’s space - the fact that only women are allowed in.

It also commits the error - as most media coverage has (see BBC Online👇), of starting its background timeline with the changing room
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BBC thinking after FWS was that it would be enough to put ‘trans’ in front of ‘woman’ to satisfy due accuracy’. Some stories had exactly that edit but female pronouns were still used. It’s moved a long way from that - due to sustained public pressure 🙏
/ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… This has the clarity of ‘biological male’ and uses neither male or female pronouns. Only this year she/her was being used for Abbi Taylor, Joanna Rowland-Stuart and Zoe Watts.

It’s not far enough but it is a proper and substantive shift. We thank (and the BBC should thank)
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If any gratitude you feel to Scotcast for platforming Naomi Cunningham is putting you off complaining about the trigger warning, don’t let it. It must never happen again.

Here are the Editorial Guidelines on Harm or Offence. Screenshots follow.

bbc.com/editorialguide… 5.4.34👇

This applies equally to any content describing men as women. It has never been applied to such content.

1 Naomi Cunningham is being treated differently

2 There is the implication that she is being offensive.
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Please read from @BorisSpider14, who’s a campaigner in the US. The scale of US medicalisation is not hidden from families, but is curated and hidden from politicians and the media. Legacy media in particular will rely on and report only ‘official’ data and won’t pick up
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https://twitter.com/borisspider14/status/1981893912449962325

/the work of whistleblower or independent/alternative journalists (see the failure to show any interest at all in the WPATH files by @_CryMiaRiver as a prime example). The reason an organisation like say the BBC is so far behind (and can never catch up) is because they
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Even readers new to the issue will be shocked by this.

Let’s see if this tribunal makes network news. Sandy Peggie didn’t.

‘When the nurses protested, they were stunned to be told they had to be educated by Henderson to become more inclusive, the tribunal will be told’
/ dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

This content, featuring a middle-aged man, is specifically directed at young people. It propagandises innate, fixed, gender identity and the idea that no one can change ‘who you are’.

To do this it weaponises sympathy for him as a supposed victim of ‘conversion therapy’.
/ It’s profoundly cynical, generated for ABC Queer (@ abcqueer Insta) - ‘home of stories *and advice* for young LGBTQIA+ Australians’

Middle-aged men need the concept of trans kids to exist. Researchers like Anja Ravine need ‘trans kids’ to exist.
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abc.net.au/news/2025-10-0…

‘I draw the line at the belligerent slogan’

‘Dawkins told @Telegraph that the trans-activist community had become ‘astonishingly vicious’, hounding people out of their jobs and calling for women who disagreed with them to be decapitated and physically assaulted’
/ ‘So powerful has this postmodern counter-factualism become, that newspapers refer to ‘her penis’ as a matter of unremarked routine’

‘I feel very strongly about the subversion of scientific truth’

By Science Editor @sarahknapton
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Mark Rowley of the Met defends the arrest of Graham Linehan.

It’s weak in itself but he gets away with it because although @Emmabarnett is unafraid to push him hard, she seems completely unaware that ‘discretion’ is always applied to complaints from women about transactivists.
/ It was intro’d fairly, pushed hard and the background on GL was great. But how is it possible after years of abuse, and two weeks of prominent women coming out and relating their horrific experiences, that flagship teams still aren’t aware of this chronic bias?

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‘Journalists have an obligation to ensure that a report of what was heard in court is accurate and not misleading’

There’ve been several reports today which breach that clause of IPSO guidance.

This in @guardian is one of them, and not just because it says Brooks is a woman.
/ It also doesn’t report any of the admissions Brooks made under cross-examination about his own behaviour.

It’s not just an IPSO issue. Court reporting has ‘absolute privilege’ (ie is not vulnerable to defamation) if it is both accurate *and fair*
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theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/s…

Here’s the R4 Today interview with Max Hill and Shami Chakrabarti on Glinner.

The utility of this programme lies its general obeisance to the official Overton window of any controversial story.

In this case we are not permitted to discuss the imbalance of response: the
/ /infiltration of police forces and police institutions by transactivism; the strange power of a few apparently vindictive individuals across years of complaints; or the under-prosecuted extreme violence of threats of dismemberment, rape, and murder made by gender activists.
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It’s this case, and it’s the prosecutor who’s made the point about pronouns.

‘A transgender Metropolitan Police volunteer officer accused of rape will be referred to by his biological sex throughout his trial’
/ Here’s the link



and here’s what the BBC did telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/1…

There is no low to which the @Independent will not stoop Story will be posted in a sequence of screenshots
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We’ll show the extent of the international media blackout on Giggle vs Tickle, but first - this is the domestic Australian news agency, @AAPNewswire

‘Ms Grover denies findings she rejected Roxanne Tickle from the app because she did not look like a c*sgender woman’ (our *)
/ It’s free to read with an email address.

The language is captured throughout.

However, at least it is coverage, and fairly full coverage, and it includes a picture of Tickle.


/aapnews.aap.com.au/glance/news/wo…

There are two legal firsts here. It’s so newsworthy but has been slightly under the radar because pool isn’t a ‘big’ sport.

The fact that as well as an FWS first, it’s the first in 15 years to use the sport exception in the EA2010 is a great story.
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https://twitter.com/jrlevinslaw/status/1951226894109614249

Coverage will come we’re sure, but it should have been in the diary. Also if there’s an ‘activist’ sport newsroom and a non-sports editor asks ‘is this worth it?’ then they’re likely to get told no, it’s niche, or they haven’t the resources (thinking of broadcasters here).
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